Short Riffing Poems

lone crimson leaf
whisked away
on day's breath
floating endlessly

my mind 
in thoughts
drifts wayward
on a breeze
as i land
artistically 
in your arms
through dreams...

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Religions try
People cry
Fear abounds

A wife wails in the night
Trying to pick up the fragments of her life
Like so many pieces of glass embedded in carpet

Men preach
People listen
Hoping to find a magic solution
To the problems of life

Only to realize that dreams
Will only happen if they have
Open minds
Clear eyes 
Pure hearts...

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A TV drones on
Background noise
Riffing on a trash can
Moments
Without moment
Motionless predators
Devouring their prey
Popcorn
Stuck between the teeth
A reminder of joy’s
Transient cheese flavored
Fingertips
Searching the remote
For the present
Deleting the detritus
Of a black and white past
The doorbell
Announces
An unsolicited solicitation
Breaking the mood
Of an endless
                      ……moment
...

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Quiet!  Quiet!
No distraction or reaction
to the situation
of creation
unfolding syncopation ...
a blues distillation.

As the sax-o-phone 
does groan into a tirade
the parade of ticks and tocks
licks and knocks
reverberate from the drummer,
bass strummer and pi-an-o
to congeal into real
high fueled blues.

Up and down the scales
the moan wails
a lascivious groan
lusty riffs thrown
by metal and ivory
into the ether to
sway with a sashay
under a blue moon....

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Things are different
Whats the piece thats missing 
Feeling the wind push back 
thru all the bytchin
Riffing 
Like overdosin a perscription
In my cross hairs the vision
So whats the point of me 
writing this then
Idk
I will go back and forth til im 
pointed north
Whats the sort 
The one thats hard to court 
Hard to handle hard to export
Idk
Ill clear a path as i go 
As i keep walking 
Fo sho
Right now im breathing so
This season is the time to gain 
control......
Peace...

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